reprehensibly

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French reprehensible (14c.) or directly from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from reprehens-, past participle stem of Latin reprehendere (see reprehend). Related: Reprehensibly; reprehensibility.

Example Sentences for reprehensibly

To work for more than this is to be greedy; to work for less is to be reprehensibly lazy.

But by this time the clerk's appearance was, to say the least, not reprehensibly "spruce."

"I don't think we gallivanted at all reprehensibly," he said.

As a matter of fact, Germany had been absorbing the commerce of the world, and Britain had been reprehensibly supine.

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